Friday, December 4, 2009

[RED DEMOCRATICA] The World This Week - Afghan Strategy - Climate Change - Iraq - more

 

From the Council on Foreign Relations

December 4, 2009

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In this Issue:

Assessing the Afghan Surge

China's Carbon-Cutting Proposal

Avoiding Elections at Any Cost in Iraq

Assessing the Afghan Surge

In his address to the nation on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama laid out a strategy he says will turn the tides in the faltering Afghan war effort. Five experts, including CFR's Richard Haass and Daniel Markey, analyze his approach. Read more

Gwertzman Interview: "Obama's Withdrawal Date a Controversial Gambit" with Stephen Biddle

Op-ed: "Doing More...to Do Less" by Richard Haass (Politico.com)

Interactive: Timeline on the U.S. war in Afghanistan

Op-ed: "Obama Got It Right' by Leslie Gelb (Daily Beast)

Foreign Affairs: "Letter from Kabul - What the United States Must Overcome in Afghanistan" by Kim Barker

Op-ed: "Despite Some Questions, Obama's Afghan Policy is Sound" by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times)

Interview: Four experts explore the changing nature of the al-Qaeda-Taliban nexus.

Foreign Affairs: A collection of articles on Afghanistan from the archive

Backgrounder: World public opinion on terrorism

Foreign Affairs: "The L-Word in Afghanistan - Can the United States Provide What Kabul Needs?" by Mark Moyar

CFR experts on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Defense Strategy

China's Carbon-Cutting Proposal

China's newly announced goal for cutting carbon intensity reflects important Chinese policy shifts of recent years, but fails to offer significant new measures to cut emissions, writes CFR's Michael Levi. Read more

Op-ed: "Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo" by Jared Braiterman (Huffington Post)

Interview: "Copenhagen's Conundrum" with Michael Levi

Interactive: Crisis Guide - Climate Change

CFR Meeting Audio, Video: "World Energy Outlook" with Fatih Birol chief economist at the International Energy Agency

Testimony: Michael Levi on "Global Efforts to Combat Climate Change" before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Foreign Affairs: "The Low-Carbon Diet - How the Market Can Curb Climate Change" by Joel Kurtzman

CFR Symposium: "Countdown to Copenhagen - What's Next for Climate Change?" directed by Michael Levi

Backgrounder: World public opinion on the environment

Independent Task Force Report: Confronting Climate Change - A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy by Michael Levi, George Pataki, and Thomas Vilsack

More CFR resources on energy and the environment

CFR experts on Energy, Climate Change

Avoiding Elections at Any Cost in Iraq

CFR's Rachel Schneller says Iraqi political factions should be given time to sort out their power-sharing rules rather than be rushed into elections in January 2010, a date pegged to U.S. troop withdrawals. Read more

Op-ed: "As We Stand Down, Can They Stand Up?" by Max Boot (Weekly Standard)

Contingency Planning Memorandum: "Reversal in Iraq" by Stephen Biddle

Book: War of Necessity, War of Choice - A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars by Richard Haass

Op-ed: "Iraq the Model?" by Lydia Khalil (Small Wars Journal)

Gwertzman Interview: "Iraq's Worrisome Political Process" with Joost Hiltermann of International Crisis Group

Interactive: Timeline on the Iraq war

CFR experts on Iraq
 
Pew-CFR Survey

CFR and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a quadrennial survey of foreign policy and national security attitudes conducted among more than 600 CFR members and 2,000 members of the public. "America's Place in the World" provides an in-depth look at both the elite and the general public's take on global issues—and Obama's approach—amid the rise of China, an economic crisis, and the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Listen to Pew's Andrew Kohut and CFR's James Lindsay discuss the findings. Related commentary by Lindsay.

 
 
An Israeli Strike on Iran

The fifth in the Center for Preventive Action's Contingency Planning Memorandum series assesses the likelihood of an Israeli strike against Iran. Authored by Steven Simon, the memo considers the implications for the United States should an attack take place, the policy options available to reduce the chances of its occurrence, and the measures that could be taken to mitigate the potentially negative consequences.

 
 
CFR Experts in the News

Globalization (12/2): Edward Alden reviews Harold James's new book on the risks posed by the destruction of the values that underpin globalization, in Forbes.

Israel (11/30): Elliott Abrams and Michael Singh assess the Middle East peace process, in the World Affairs Journal.

Afghanistan (11/30): Leslie Gelb says Obama's Afghanistan troop strategy "deserves the support of the American people," on the Daily Beast.

Diplomacy (11/30): Elliott Abrams says Obama's approach to diplomacy has moral costs, in the Weekly Standard.

Cold War (11/27): Richard Haass considers lessons learned of the Cold War, for Project Syndicate.

Human Rights (11/26): Jerome Cohen examines the excruciating decisions facing families of overseas Chinese detained on the mainland, in the South China Morning Post.

Asia (11/23): Leslie Gelb argues that Obama missed an opportunity of a new leadership role in the world's most dynamic economic region, on the Daily Beast.

China (11/23): Joshua Kurlantzick argues that the fact that Obama did not predict the decline of Chinese communism was an important shift in rhetoric, in the Boston Globe.

Immigration (11/21): Edward Alden argues that Obama should eliminate the "special registration" procedures under the National Security Entry-Exit System, in the Washington Post.

 
 

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